[isabelle-dev] Towards the release -- Bitbucket

[Makarius]

Dear all,

this week is left for finalizing the regular Isabelle repository for the 
release.  Then the usual fork to the isabelle-release repository will 
happen, and release candidates appear for public testing on isabelle-users 
like last time.

Some very quick guys have already started testing the test for the 
packaging, which was not a proper release candidate yet.  So I need to 
hurry up.


Last December we have had a lot of NFS problems at TUM, so I would like to 
experiment a bit with viable alternatives, and Bitbucket seems to be the 
main player for Mercurial.  Various side-repositories that are required 
for the release will be hosted there (e.g. the website).

See also https://bitbucket.org/isabelle_project/isabelle-release/wiki/Home 
for the main entry point for the actual release.  I have activated the 
tracker, too, to see if a few more reports are coming in the critical 
weeks before actual lift-off.  (For Isabelle2012 we've had about 3 people 
testing before the release, and about 5 testing afterwards.)


I recommend to register at Bitbucket already, choosing a good account 
name.  It is a very easy and generous server.  As someone with academic 
mail address you immediately get a free upgrade to "unlimited users" for 
private repositories.  Public repositories are always unlimited.


 	Makarius